30 Jun
2011
30 Jun
'11
10:39 a.m.
On 30 June 2011 16:20, Thomas Mortagne <thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 09:57, Paul Harris
<harris.pc(a)gmail.com> wrote:
It was suggested in the official XWiki Upgrade documentation,
see bottom of page here:
http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Installation
I assumed the core team would only mention quality extensions in
documentation like that.
> >> WHY is there no default "cannot view unless admin says so" mode?
> >> This is a problem with all of my spaces. When I create a space, I
want
That is not my point.
The wiki is open for editing, but only to registered users, and some spaces
On 30 June 2011 15:49, Thomas Mortagne
<thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com>
wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 09:39, Asiri Rathnayake
> <asiri.rathnayake(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Paul Harris <harris.pc(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi guys,
> >>
> >> I installed the "Admin Tools" plugin
> >> http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/AdminTools
> >>
> >> And found that half the stuff didn't work anyway.
> >>
> >> Regardless, carrying on, I am hoping the User Rights tool will be
> helpful,
> >> however it can't seem to check the most important user:
> >> the Unregistered User
> >>
> >> And what is worse, I discovered by accident that the Unregistered
User
> can
> >> access the space!
> >> For example, an unregistered user can access the
/xwiki/Admin/RunQuery
> >> page,
> >> which could be used to run queries directly on the database, for
example
> select * from xwikipreferences
>
> Does this give anyone else a heart attack too??
>
I don't think this "extension" is part of the standard XE/XEM release.
You
should be careful when installing extensions.
Yes this extension is a contribution and is not written or supported
by the XWiki Core team.
> to
> >> then have to go and ALLOW people to access it. Not open by default,
> that
> >> is
> >> much harder to configure.
> >>
> >
> > It's a wiki, and wikis are supposed to be open by default. If the the
> > default behaviour is "closed", it would be hard for a normal user to
> create
> > a space and allow other users to contribute content (he'll have to
wait
> for
> > the admin to open that space).
> >
> > This is only my personal understanding and I'm not a professional
XWiki
user, so let's wait for some other views as well.
Yes it's exactly that, wiki that only an admin can contribute to is
not a wiki... maybe a CMS.
are only available to a subset of those users.
Its mostly to prevent
vandalism, plus some pages people want to only share with their
particular
group of users.
There may be many many users, and if its "open by default" then it
becomes
more difficult to figure out who could have
access to what.
Go to the general right management UI and only give rights to admin
group (no need to use deny, just set blank), that will implicitly
remove theses right for any other user. That's why users don't have
admin right for example in a default XE even if guest have it when you
did not yet imported XE and its default right configuration. Then you
can give specific rights space by space. Also making default XE distribution private is
very easy you just have
to setup global rights and you are done for the whole wiki.
How do I do that ? Don't forget to give view right on XWiki space for
users since a lot
of default applications actually have there code there so user need to
be able to view/execute it.
Have you tested this? It doesn't work for me...
I want the registered users to be able to see the Main/Welcome page, but
nothing else.
I did what you said, I have ticked View for XWikiAllGroup (not just admin),
and left everyone else's View right as Unticked.
Then I added a green tick in the View right in the XWiki space for the
Unregistered User.
When the unregistered user looks at the main welcome page, they can see the
content, but the black-to-grey styling is broken (I'm using the NightFall
colours with Colibri skin).
ideas?
thanks
Paul